Connectionists: Three postdoctoral positions on machine learning and speech processing

[Emmanuel Vincent]

Inria is seeking 3 postdoctoral researchers for a new European (H2020 ICT) collaborative project called COMPRISE. COMPRISE is a 3-year Research and Innovation Action (RIA) aiming at new cost-effective, multilingual, privacy-driven voice interaction technology. This will be achieved through research advances in privacy-driven machine learning, personalized training, automatic data labeling, and tighter integration of speech and dialog processing with machine translation. The technology will be based on existing software toolkits (Kaldi speech-to-text, Platon dialog processing, Tilde text-to-speech), as well as new software resulting from these research efforts.

The consortium includes academic and industrial partners in France (Inria <https://www.inria.fr/en/>,Netfective Technology <https://www.bluage.com/>), Germany (Ascora <https://ascora.net/>,Saarland University <https://www.uni-saarland.de/nc/en/home.html>), Latvia (Tilde <https://www.tilde.com/>), and Spain (Rooter <https://www.rooter.es/home>). The successful candidates will be part of theMultispeech <https://team.inria.fr/multispeech/>  team in Nancy or theMagnet <https://team.inria.fr/magnet/>  team in Lille. Both teams will work in tight collaboration.

Topics include:

  * weakly-supervised, semi-supervised learning, learning with partial feedback
  * theoretical aspects and formal guarantees in private machine learning,
  * representation learning and deep learning for speech processing,
  * learning on the edge, federated learning and personalized learning.

Both theoretical and practical aspects will be developed, possibly by different candidates depending on their skills.

*Desired profile:*

Two alternative profiles are welcome, either:

  * strong background in mathematics, machine learning, statistics and algorithms,

or

  * strong experience with implementation and experimentation, speech processing, natural language processing, user modeling.

*Application deadline:*  October 19, 2018

*Starting date:*  January 1, 2019 or later
*Duration:*  2 years (renewable)
*Location:*  Nancy or Lille, France
*Salary:*  from 2,130 to 2,520 EUR net/month, according to experience

*For more details and to apply:*
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01045
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01044
https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-01038

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Emmanuel Vincent
Multispeech Project-Team
Inria Nancy - Grand Est
615 rue du Jardin Botanique, 54600 Villers-lès-Nancy, France
Phone: +33 3 8359 3083 - Fax: +33 3 8327 8319
Web: http://members.loria.fr/evincent/

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